The Quarterly Review, Volume 221William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1914 |
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Page 108
... planets and the constellations of the Zodiac by which their path was marked out , and their supposed influence on human affairs defined or modified , figure too prominently on Mithraic monuments to admit of doubt with regard to the ...
... planets and the constellations of the Zodiac by which their path was marked out , and their supposed influence on human affairs defined or modified , figure too prominently on Mithraic monuments to admit of doubt with regard to the ...
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... planets , in which the Sun occupies the central place , was unknown to the Greeks until the 2nd century B.C. , when it was adopted by the Stoic Diogenes of Babylon ; * but it was reserved for a greater than Diogenes to popularise , by ...
... planets , in which the Sun occupies the central place , was unknown to the Greeks until the 2nd century B.C. , when it was adopted by the Stoic Diogenes of Babylon ; * but it was reserved for a greater than Diogenes to popularise , by ...
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... planets , vindicated for the Sun by the Babylonian astronomers , belonged to him of right as the King whose bodyguard they formed . † Cleanthes had already seen in the Sun the Ruling Power - τὸ ἡγεμονικόν -which was to the macrocosm ...
... planets , vindicated for the Sun by the Babylonian astronomers , belonged to him of right as the King whose bodyguard they formed . † Cleanthes had already seen in the Sun the Ruling Power - τὸ ἡγεμονικόν -which was to the macrocosm ...
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... planets ) ascending and descending . A clap of thunder follows , and the initiate replies thus : ' Silence ! I am a star that wanders with you , shining forth from the deep . ' We need not pursue in detail the visions which follow - the ...
... planets ) ascending and descending . A clap of thunder follows , and the initiate replies thus : ' Silence ! I am a star that wanders with you , shining forth from the deep . ' We need not pursue in detail the visions which follow - the ...
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... planetary and stellar heavens) as used in the mysteries of Mithras ; and in a Mithreum at Ostia ire find six semicircles traced in mosaic on the floor of the nave, while on the side- walls the planets and the constellations of the ...
... planetary and stellar heavens) as used in the mysteries of Mithras ; and in a Mithreum at Ostia ire find six semicircles traced in mosaic on the floor of the nave, while on the side- walls the planets and the constellations of the ...
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